RxDoctor Payments Data

Muhammad Iqbal, MD

Nephrology · Pasadena, CANPI 1578515896

Payments from drug & device makers

$684in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $20.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$166
  • GSK$89
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$65
  • Johnson & Johnson$59
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$53
  • AbbVie$52
  • plus $200 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$684100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$359
Medicare patients
32
Services billed
72

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate28$21,841
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate38$1,079
Atorvastatin Calcium196$1,007
Tamsulosin Hcl35$599
Losartan Potassium122$585
Metoprolol Succinate47$576
Amlodipine Besylate128$335
Metformin Hcl64$287
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate25$269
Omeprazole37$237
Levothyroxine Sodium11$170
Rosuvastatin Calcium12$161
Finasteride21$142
Fluticasone Propionate20$138
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate16$125

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
MerckJanuvia$11$21,84128 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 35th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.

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